Return to the school yard, some Sunday June 17th finds---including second Indian of the year!

kevinstang · June 18, 2007 2:59AM

Decided to go back to the school yard where I found the 1917 Canadian large cent a while back - we still haven't had much rain and the ground was even dryer than before. I had just got there when I almost passed up a faint signal by the walkway- glad I didn't, my first hole of the day would yield my best coin of the day, a bent 1865 Indian Head. This is my second oldest Indian found metal detecting- last year dug an 1864- interestingly enough it was also bent! Straightened it out the best I could for photo:

Needless to say my hopes were high, spent the next four hours working the playground over, got just over $4 in change, a couple of jewelry pieces and one odd button. Didn't think much of the button until I got it home and cleaned up some:

It has the motto "Spes Nostra Es Devs" which I found online means "God, you are our hope" . Not sure of age, but has a kinda cool bird in the middle as well. Just thought I would share these images with everyone. Might hit a newly created small park tonight, just saw them planting trees on the lot today- it was the former site of an old butcher shop and diner from way back. When they were demolishing the buildings years back a friend of mine found an 1859 on sidewalk, it has sat as an empty lot for the last ten years or so, now taken over by the village. Happy Hunting!